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EXCLUSIVE: After being ousted from the Democratic Party over a disagreement about the push to defund the police, Maud Maron, a former progressive turned conservative Republican, is running to unseat Alvin Bragg as Manhattan district attorney.
In an interview with Fox News Digital, Maron, an attorney and mother of four, said that under Democratic rule, crime in New York City has spiraled out of control to the point that the city is facing a serious “public safety crisis.”
She described a situation in which a criminal slashed police officers in the neck and face inside a Manhattan courthouse. In any other city, this occurrence would have been outrageous and unheard of, but Maron said that due to Democratic District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s policies, it is a familiar scene.
According to Maron, after entering office in 2022, Bragg issued a day one memo in which he directed the assistant district attorneys in his office to simply not prosecute whole categories of crimes or “charge as low as possible and to seek as little jail time as possible.”
“That’s a recipe for chaos, disorder, and violence in our streets, and that’s exactly what we’ve seen,” she said.
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New York City attorney and mother Maud Maron, who is running for Manhattan district attorney as a Republican, and current Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg. (Maud Moran | Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
In just the three years since Bragg took office, Maron said that the decline in New York City is palpable and can be experienced just walking in the streets or taking the subway.
“If you’re going to commit a crime, best do it when Alvin Bragg is in office, because he will make sure you get the least amount of prosecution, the least amount of jail time, if jail time is in your future, the least amount of accountability,” she explained. “He is going to absolutely make sure that it’s the…
